Villa Agnoutine

Every village has its own original, its own madman, its own local eccentric, whose particularity is to spice up the life of the community. From the 1920s onwards, Léon was home to a curious character: Loys Labèque. A vagabond with anarchistic tendencies, an adventurer with a mystical streak, he was also touched by the Christian faith and wrote mysterious poems for the average person. Originally from Léon, he was to rest there until the end of his days, in 1941, at the Villa Agnoutine. For some inhabitants, the memory of this strange man haunting the streets remains, "yellow panama, glasses and black lavaliere, false collar and celluloid cuffs of unforgettable dimensions".